Vim version 5.3 has been released

Announcement
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This is a minor release of Vim. Since version 5.1 new features have been
added and bugs have been fixed. Since version 5.2 only a few bugfixes were
included (these fixes were the reason to release 5.3 shortly after 5.2).

Since Vim has been tested by quite a few people over the past months, there
should be no serious problems. But, it is free software, use at your own
risk!

What is Vim?
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Vim is an almost 100% compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new
features have been added: Multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line
history, filename completion, block operations, etc. Those who don't know Vi
can probably skip this message, unless you are prepared to learn something new
and useful. Vim is especially recommended for editing programs.

A short overview:
- A file browser has been added for the Win32, Motif and Athena GUI versions.
- Dialogs have been added. They can be used to ask for confirmation on Ex
commands that can fail.
- Options and commands have been added to offer a mode that works like
MS-Windows cut/copy/paste. This makes the Win32 GUI version fit in better
with other MS-Windows applications.
- Session files can be used to store and restore an editing session.
- Functions and Ex commands can be defined by the user. This is much nicer
and more powerful than using mappings.
- Lines longer than the screen size can be edited, also when lines wrap.
- Support for Cscope and an interaface for TCL have been added.
- Port to the RISC OS and GUI port for the Amiga.
- Support for Multi-byte files (DBCS and Unicode).

And many bug fixes! See ":help version-5.2" in Vim.

Where to get it
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You can find a list of distribution sites at

Note that for most systems the distribution has been split into an archive
with runtime files (documentation, syntax files, etc.) and a binary and/or
source archive. You should download at least two archives (except for OS/2).

Mailing list
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For user questions you can turn to the Vim mailing list. There are a lot of
tips, mappings and solutions. You can ask your Vim questions, but only if you
subscribe. See http://www.vim.org/mail.html.

Reporting bugs
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Send them to <Bram@...>. Please be brief, all the time that is spend on
answering mail is subtracted from the time that is spend on improving Vim!
Always give a reproducable example and try to find out which settings or other
things influence the appearance of the bug. Try different machines if
possible. See ":help bugs" in Vim. Send me patches if you can!

Happy Vimming!

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